Former Packers President & CEO Bob Harlan Passes Away

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It's now on Thursday and the news.

That Bob Harland passed away.

89 was what?

Yeah, 89.

Yeah.

I don't know if enough people interacted with him to do a whole story on him,

but I guarantee no one's going to call in with anything,

but a great story about how Bob Harland was so nice.

I mentioned a little bit about it,

whenever you'd call,

he'd always answer his own phone.

That was true when he was,

I don't know what his position was,

but he handled all the contracts, Jason.

I talked to him a million times more than I did,

but he was nice to everybody.

I mean, this is...

So you could do a whole show.

They better hold the funeral at Lambo Field,

because there'll be a gazillion people there,

and they'll all have the same story about how nice he was

from the day he first met him,

regardless of how important he was.

I have...

He signed some of the formula that was...

Because he was a sports information director at Marquette,

and then he left,

I hope I have to say,

then left to go with the St. Louis Cardinals,

and he worked for them,

and then from there,

I think he went to the Packers,

but I know he wrote the intro

to the Milwaukee Classic,

it might have been in 60-something,

and he signed it for me,

and I've got to look at the years

to see if he was there before...

I think he was before Al McGuire,

I'm not sure,

but anyway,

where everybody's going to have the same story.

It was, as I stated,

it's hard to believe that he became present

because he was just so nice.

I can't...

He can't be present.

He's too nice.

Judge Robert Perens was the first president,

and he left Bob Harling at the job,

and he deserves all the credit

for the Turner-Rondling Green Bay Packers.

He's the guy who hired Ron Wolfe

after seeing him when Wolfe interviewed for the job.

When Perens was the president,

and the first thing Harling did,

I'm going to bring Ron Wolfe in

and tell him,

you do whatever you want.

You want to check with me,

and then,

when Wolfe wanted to make the trade

to get Brett Farvey,

he went in and told Harling,

I was like,

what are you here for?

Do whatever you want.

I'll support whatever you do.

But anyway,

I will have more...

Jason Wilde,

who's normally on with...

with Brian Bolaga,

since Brian Bolaga's on assignment,

then I'll get a chance to talk with Jason Wilde

or just let him talk

for the whole time about

all his stories about Bob Harling.

Now,

someone released that?

It was on...

Was it Adam Schaefter?

That just seems odd to me.

I would have think that

the Packers would have released

that information first,

but...

probably doesn't really

be out of that much.

One eight...

Well, the Packers were sitting on

Twitter about 19 minutes ago.

Oh, they were the first ones.

I'm assuming they were the first ones, yeah.

Yeah, okay.

As it should be.

The nicest man in the world.

Yeah, that could be our discount liquor poll question

if everybody knows.

Who was nicer?

Mr. Rogers or Bob Harling?

Harling would win.

But I'm not sure enough people

interact with him.

You can...

When we go to YouTube,

if you have a Bob Harling story,

you can put it in there.

Someone...

the judge...

of the show.

I think he had a Bob Harling story

to get a chance to read it yet.

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He holds the Marquette record

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Oh, pass.

How many MVP awards for Robin Young?

Uh, five.

Incorrect.

The two players with 4,000 major league baseball career hits.

Oh, Robin Young.

Incorrect.

Name the two players with over 3,100 career hits.

This is on any team, but not in the Hall of Fame.

Reggie Jackson.

Incorrect.

How old is Janice?

Um, was he 34?

Incorrect.

Sophia Bell, nine year old girl set a record

with what amount on the bench press?

You got to be within five, nine year old girl.

What did she bench press within five pounds?

Old time record.

150?

150 is incorrect.

Since 1999, how many NCAA men's basketball titles for Yukon?

Uh, seven.

Incorrect.

How many different coaches have won those titles at Yukon since 1999?

Uh, three.

Correct.

How many NCAA titles in a row did John Wooden win at UCLA?

Uh, three.

Incorrect.

How many games did Lou Elcinder, Kremel Dujabar, lose in three years at UCLA?

How many games did he lose?

Oh, pass.

How many World Series rings for Craig Council as a player?

Two.

Correct.

The years, the two years, the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA title.

Uh, 2008?

Incorrect.

What team gave up 100 points in a game to Wilk Chamberlain?

Oh, about pass.

In his 50s, Wilk Chamberlain reportedly bench pressed how much within 50 pounds?

200?

Incorrect.

Wilk Chamberlain, how many rebounds did he have in one NBA game within five?

35?

55 rebounds.

Just want to throw that one in.

Incorrect.

I have two.

I have two as well.

Yeah, how many World Series rings for Craig Council, two?

How many different coaches have won the titles that you've run three since 1999?

And now we'll go through the questions.

Now, Jeremy, you'll learn how well you did based on how many pebble gets right.

He's pretty good at this.

And uh, he might get, I will say he'll miss one or two at the most.

You ready to go, pebble?

Yes, sir.

He holds the Marquette record with most career black shot.

Jim McElvin?

Jim McElvin.

Jeremy, you can use this.

He and his wife are the tallest parents in the world.

They have two kids together.

Jim McElvin's seven, one, his wife, Gwendolyn is six, seven.

That means 13 feet, eight inches.

They used to be the tallest couple in the world until a Chinese basketball player, seven, eight, married a woman who was six, two.

And that made for 13 feet, two, ten inches.

All right.

How many MVP awards for Robin Yow?

Two.

Two is correct.

Two players with 4,000 major league baseball career hits.

There's Pete Rose and Ty Cobb?

Yes, that's correct.

Name two players with over 3,100 career hits, not in the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose is one of them.

Pete Rose is one.

Yep.

Uh.

Now you got to have somebody who's not eligible for the Hall of Fame yet or achieves.

Raphael Polmero?

Raphael Polmero has 3,000 but not 3,100.

Albert Poole's Miguel Cabrera and the cheater, Alex Rodriguez.

Those are the four with Pete Rose.

How old is Janus?

31.

31.

Sophie Bell.

If you listen to the show, uh.

Pretty easily.

I mean, you heard it yet.

Nine year girl, nine year old girl set a record with what did she bench press?

They said 105.

100 and it was 101.

Um, so yeah, 101, 105.

You had to be within five.

Since 1999, how many NCAA men's titles for you?

Six.

Six.

The greatest performance of any school in the history of men's college basketball.

Because almost every other record by a school is because of one coach.

Adolf Ruppet, Kentucky, Johnny Wooden at UCLA.

I'm trying to think there probably isn't another one that has a lot of time.

How many different coaches have won those six titles at Yukon?

Three.

Three.

That's also amazing.

Jim Calhoun.

Jim Calhoun.

Kevin Olly, who got one and Danny early has the latest two.

How many NCAA titles in a row did Johnny Wooden win UCLA?

Seven.

Seven.

Uh, 67 to 77.

Seven row.

How many games did Lou Alcindor, who became crewman of the little jewel, lose in three seasons

that you say.

Like two games.

Two is it.

None of the tournament.

They won.

You couldn't play as a freshman.

World Series rings for Card Council.

Way to go.

Jeremy.

The years that the Bucks won the NBA title, 71 and 20, 21, yep, 50 years apart.

What team gave up a hundred points in a game to Wiltson?

The Knicks.

The Knicks, March 2nd, 1962.

In his fifties, Wiltson and reportedly bench pressed how much within 50 pounds, three

25, five hundred and 50 pounds.

And Wiltson and I gave you this.

How many rebounds did he have in an NBA game within five?

Yeah, 55.

55.

55.

How many games do you watch?

Somebody can look that up where the entire team doesn't have 55 rebounds.

And I do will Chamberlain because he's kind of like Don Hudson.

It's before most people followed sports and you need to look it up.

He ran a 40 time, they say at seven, one that he believed he said he ran like a four,

five, 40 or something like that.

It's just impossible to comprehend what an incredible athlete was at that time.

All right, Jeremy, how did you feel like you did?

What grade would you give yourself?

An F?

No.

No.

No.

An F is...

Not for your first time.

No.

No.

An F is zero.

You got two.

One.

D.

D plus.

Yeah.

C minus D plus something like that.

Because there were a couple others that you probably should have gotten.

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Didn't Harlan have a significant impact and reason for the Lambo field renovations?

Yeah.

And he raised the money.

The Packers needed money.

He said it was really, really tough.

Jason, Jason Willio have all those Kevin Harlan stories.

The particulars.

The particulars on that.

Yeah.

Green Bay Packers are the Green Bay Packers now and achieve what they've done since 1990 because

of one man, Bob Harlan, and as nice as he was, he made the great decisions necessary

for the Packers.

It was basically one Ron Wolf because who hired Ted Thompson, Ron Wolf, and as far as

they go with Goody, he was part of the same tree 1 800 990 3776.

I am next unless you have a Bob Harlan story and then Jason will what time is Jason going

to be on next.

Oh, he's saying, oh, that's right, 515.

My apologies.

Jason Willdie with his Bob Harlan stories.

Next.

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Jason Willdie good afternoon.

Hi, Homer.

How are you?

I'm not well.

Bob Harlan passed away.

I didn't, you probably knew if he must have been sick, I didn't, I didn't know his condition

or that it was close to death.

Uh, yeah, I, I, I think I found out, um, on Tuesday and, uh, you know, I, I'm, I'm lucky

that I've known a lot of really good people, um, in my life and, um, and you're one of them

frankly, um, a lot of really good people, but I don't know if, um, I don't know if I've

ever known anyone as good as Bob.

So, um, I knew that this was close, um, and so I've had less couple days to kind of prepare

for it and, um, I, um, you know, I stayed in touch, um, we would talk every, I didn't want

to always, I didn't want to always be pestering them.

So I would talk to them every, I don't know, maybe once a month and, um, you know, his,

wife, Madeline, who, I mean, they've been married for like 70 years, I think, or close

to it.

Um, he, they're just such, such wonderful people and, you know, I was, uh, it was hoping

I'd get to see him, but it was just his family that, uh, spent some time with him the last

couple of days and understandably so, um, but it was, uh, I'm glad that, uh, somebody

let me know ahead of time that, um, that this was close because it's, uh, hit me pretty

hard today, even though I knew it was coming.

So, um, I don't think you can understate, uh, as I try to get my composure here.

Um, I don't think you can understate how important he is in Packer's history.

Um, you know, you can talk about, obviously, all the great players that have come through

here.

You can talk about, you know, legendary coaches and Lambo and all that, um, but you think

about his hiring of Ron Wolf after the organization, you know, Bob tell, used to tell a great story

about the first time they tried to hire Ron Wolf, uh, before he, before he was the team

president, and he, I just remember he was the VP of signing all, getting the contract

signed for the players.

I don't know if that was his title, but yeah, yeah, he was, he started out as assistant

GM and, but I mean, he was, he was the person who picked Ron Wolf up at the airport.

I think it was in 88, 89 when they, they chose Tom Broff, instead made this little earlier

than that.

Um, after Ron Wolf said, look, I, you know, I have to have full control of the football

operation.

And so, when, uh, Bob became team president in 1989 and, uh, needed to hire a general

manager in 1991, uh, he was not going to take no for an answer from, from Ron Wolf, and

he hired the guy who, you know, not only traded for Brett Farve and signed Reggie White, but

also hired Mike Holmgren and, you know, really keyed the renaissance of an organization

that spent three decades largely wandering in the wilderness.

And if he had been the president, instead of Judge, Judge Robert Pairns, uh, Ron Wolf

would have been the GM and would never have done what Tom Broff did and taking Tony Mandridge

with the second overall pick when Troy Ackman, Dion Sanders, Barry Sanders were all available.

Did you ever ask Ron Wolf who he would have taken privately?

You know, I, I never, I never have, um, and you know, Ron is obviously, um, not young

either.

I, I talked to him a few weeks ago and so, um, you know, again, I, I look at not just hiring

Ron Wolf, but obviously getting the stadium referendum passed, which, you know, this

is not hyperbole when I say, you know, it almost killed Bob.

I mean, Madeline was extremely worried about him.

Um, he would get up at the crack of dawn and greet, you know, guys coming to work at the

paper mills and the factories up here trying to get them to vote in favor of the, of the

referendum, he would be at, you know, diners all day long and then he would be catching

people at night.

And would you say, Jason, he understood how hard it was going to be, which I think everybody

would have thought, well, if the Packers, they'll get whatever they want.

He, he must have known how hard it would be based on how hard he worked.

I, I never talked to him about it.

I mean, you probably know, he definitely, he, uh, I did many times and, and he certainly,

I mean, remember, despite all, uh, his efforts, it's still only passed by a 53 47 margin,

which means a three point swing would have made it a toss up.

And so, you know, he did that.

He, you know, personally, for me as, um, as someone who grew up in a family with tickets

at Milwaukee County Stadium, my grandparents had gotten tickets, uh, the Milwaukee tickets

back when they were at State Fair Park in the 1940s, um, you know, which led, I mean,

that's a critical piece of who I am in terms of why I do what I do, uh, was going to

those games from when I was about five years old.

Um, he also figured out a way to get the, get the Packers out of Milwaukee, but not leave

the fans behind.

I know that was one of the things he was most proud of.

And so, and, and on top of all that, not only was there all that winning, but he also hired

Ted Thompson, who then built another Super Bowl championship team, right?

And, and he was never, he was part of the, the tree of Ron Wolf, right?

He, well, he was, but he also did it because, you know, he, and, and this was the thing

about Bob is that he was, you know, he, he really cared about Mike Sherman, um, and

when Ron retired and he wasn't, you know, he was hoping that Ron would change his mind

and he didn't.

So then they gave both responsibilities to Mike and that he, Bob knew those mistakes.

They only hired Ted Thompson in part, not just because he knew Green Bay, but he knew

Mike Sherman and his hope was that it would be able to work.

And obviously it didn't, but they went and won another Super Bowl.

I mean, he, you know, the amount of winning they did, even though, you know, he was kind

of the guy behind the guys, if you will, with all that, it, it all starts with him.

And if he, you know, who knows what happens if he doesn't hire Ron Wolf, who knows what

happens, um, if he doesn't get to stadium referendum path, um, you know, I know that there

are plenty of people that have always said, well, Packers can ever leave their own by

the community, but we all know that the NFL can pretty much do whatever it wants and

they continue to circle the drain the way they, uh, potentially could have, uh, who knows

if they'd even still be here.

Um, so I don't, I just don't think you understand how important he is in the, in the annals

of, of this, uh, historic organization.

And yet, how nice he was.

All right.

The, the first story always about Barbara Highland was, is that he answered his own phone.

Yeah, it's 100% true.

And I remember it because the first time he did, I went, excuse me.

He goes, yeah, what?

I said, you answer your own phone.

Yep.

Always having always will.

I don't believe that ever changed, did it?

It did not.

No, he did it to the day he retired in January of 2008 and, you know, you know, he also,

you know, was so vital in being the conduit that got the recon, and, and what the, how

every feel about Brett Farve today, uh, in March of 2026, remember where the organization

was with him, um, you know, in 2015 leading up to his pro football hall of fame induction.

And he was the one who found a way to bring the two sides together.

He was the intermediary for that.

Like, he just, you know, he just had a way about him.

And yet it was never, there's never ever about him, like, there are those of us that

like to think that we're on selfish or we don't have much of an ego and we care about

other people more than we care about ourselves.

But a lot of times we fall short on that and, and he, he just never did.

Like he's one of those, when people pass away, right, there's, there sometimes, if we're

being honest, you know, there's maybe some, some whitewashing of history, right, because

you don't want to talk about the, the less than, uh, complimentary aspects of their, of

who they were and, and what they did.

And, you know, everything that you will read in the coming days, uh, and hear about Bob

is true.

Um, and, and he was, he, he was not too good to be true.

He was genuinely that good at my, I never heard a bad story about it my entire life.

That one.

Yeah.

No, I, I don't, I don't think there is one.

And, you know, I have, I have so many stories.

I mean, he wrote the, you know, and drew all of them in, uh, our old friend, um, and

he made, wrote to me into doing this book that he had, uh, agreed to do and then realized

there was too much of an undertaking and he begged to me to write half of it.

Um, and I agreed.

It's still the worst selling Packers book in, in history, I'm sure, uh, because it was

also out during COVID and, and, but Bob Harlan wrote the forward.

I mean, it was the most legitimate person involved in the book and he wrote the forward.

Um, so I, I, I considered him, uh, a friend I, uh, admired him, uh, to such an incredible

degree, but like, you know, one of my favorite stories, uh, about him is we're on the road

because, you know, for those that don't know, I, I don't travel with the team like I

used to, but for the first 20 years, I covered the team.

I traveled everything and I think it was in Tampa and somebody pulled a fire alarm and

we all had to evacuate.

So we're all out in this parking lot of the team hotel at like two in the morning and,

you know, everyone's in varying versions of pajamas or boxer shorts and Bob Harlan

comes down in a suit, right?

He was just never going to be seen, uh, without being, uh, first class.

We always talk at our company about being best in class and he just always, I remember

at the beginning before I was like, he was the guy who started a blue shirt on.

I thought they said at IBM, they did a blue shirt and tie and like I remember discussing

he'll never be president.

He's too nice.

Yeah.

And, and look, he, he, he definitely made what was, what I think is, is one of his many

legacies is that he made difficult decisions, but he did it like, you know, firing Mike,

uh, Sherman, or revoking the GM saying, I mean, that, that was really difficult for Bob.

But again, he knew it was the right decision.

What do you have to do?

The organization was going in the wrong direction and, and I don't know if Mike Sherman ever,

you know, um, forgave him for that.

I, I, I just know, I just know how much it hurt Bob to have to do that.

But he, he, he never allowed being the nice guy to prevent him from doing what was right

for the club.

And, you know, again, he's, you know, I think about all the different things that, that he

accomplished during his tenure, but, you know, what people don't know.

And I wrote a story about him.

I was going back in my archives because obviously I knew this day was coming and, and I, and

I'm so, uh, like, I, I, I, I like to think I'm a, I'm pretty good at this job.

But like, I also am, I, I, I, I, I can't always separate myself from the people that I cover,

especially the, the really good people.

I have no trouble with the people that are less than, but like, I, I kept staring at a,

I don't get writers block a lot.

And I, I knew I had to write something, I knew this was coming.

So I just sat with a blank screen the last two nights, I, I, I would start things and

then stop.

And so I wrote something quick to get it onto the channel 3000 website, but now I'm, I'm

struggling.

And, and I went back and looked at the story that I wrote in 2003, uh, for the state

journal.

And I, I just, I remember reporting it and talking to a couple of his buddies that he'd

gone to Marquette with, uh, and, and remember he, before he became, the, before he came to

the Packers as the assistant GM in 1971, he had been the SID at Marquette and then he'd

spend time and baseball with things, I think he was there when, when McGuire started.

He left.

So he, well, I know that, I, but I know this like, I know that when he, um, when he was in,

as a student, um, at, at Marquette, um, at Marquette, he and two of his Marquette buddies snuck

into a game in 1954.

And there's this quote in my story, uh, which I just love so much where he says, my one

claim to fame is that I've never paid to go to a Packers game.

And my transition from that was, well, his claim to fame is much greater than that, obviously.

But he was, he was just such a, you know, and look, I don't want to be, the other person

I don't always, I always try to avoid being, but it's hard not to be when he's done this

now as long as I have is like yearning for the good old days, right?

Like when the team president would answer his phone, like Marquette, he never did that.

You know, there are multiple layers.

There were this way with Murphy, nobody in president and nobody in any school, any team

in whatever.

Nobody.

Yeah, but I think, I think what one of the quintessential things about Bob was that he understood

the Packers were different, right?

I mean, they just are.

And so I, because certainly when he was doing that, he could have easily said, you know what,

this is nonsense, right?

I've got, I've got an administrative assistant.

I, I don't need to be doing this anymore.

Like this is a guy who would respond to letters that were mailed to 1265, Lombardi, I have

it, by angry fans, like he, you know, he just, he is authentically, you know, people

use the word unique and they use it wrong all the time.

Unique, the definition is that it is, it is one of one, that that's what unique is.

You can't be very unique.

There is only one and he, he fit, he is unique.

There will never be anyone that is not the Packers that's in English.

He says he is and be that successful.

It wasn't made up when Leo DeRoscher said, nice guys finished last because there's a tough

this needed.

Bob, a Harlan didn't have it, even when he was tough, I mean, like I got one, somebody

just sent a story.

They saw him one time and he heard him say he was doing an interview, I need to take

a break for a bit to call a UW Stevens point student doing a paper since the only time

he can talk and Bob Harlan calls the student.

He could have been talking to the President of the United States, it would, no, people

say no, it can't, they think the stories can't be that good, no, they are and they're

a million of them.

They're really, you know, and I know in talking with some of his family members, you know,

the last couple of days, I mean, I think, you know, Kevin, who obviously has had an

incredible career and Michael and Brian, I think they all viewed this through the prism

of what a remarkable, consequential life, you know, that Bob had lived.

And you know, 89 years old, having accomplished so much and having impacted so many people,

the way he did.

I mean, you know, I can sit here and be tearing up and talking about him, but I am sure

I'm not the only one who feels this way, you know, people who he touched over the years.

I just, I just, I don't think, you know, I've got, like I said, you know, John Kerry,

who retired from the Mac Fund many years ago is another one of those people in my life.

You know, I've been, I've been really blessed to be surrounded by a lot of really good

people.

And, you know, I kind of look at Bob and him and some others and say, boy, I hope I do

a half way decent job of replicating myself.

Did you ever see him, man, I don't, I can't ever remember, I can't ever remember ever

seen him when he wasn't nice.

Yeah, you know, I thought, I know that there was a time when when Ted Thompson was incurring

a lot of the fans wrath, you know, because he obviously hired him in 05.

And they, you know, he had, by the time that they won the Super Bowl, the 2010 team Bob

had retired.

He ended up having to stay out longer after the 70 retirement age was John Jones and had

a major cardiac event and he wasn't able to ascend to the presidency.

So that led to the search and that led to Mark Murphy and whatever else.

But, you know, I'll say that's like Ron Wolfe is one tough cookie.

And, you know, I think he was so incredibly appreciative and they made a good team, right?

Like, no one, no one would say God, that Ron Wolfe, he just was always so nice.

Because he was tough when he needed to be and that job called for it.

He's a really good person.

But like, there was a dynamic that those two had and then obviously with home grind as

the coach.

I mean, I just, Packers fans were so fortunate to have those three people, you know, basically

leading the organization at a critical time when they had just lost and lost and lost

and lost for so long.

And they would have continued losing if not for Harlan.

There's no way they had changed the approach they had a president.

I don't know what there's a little bit better, I guess, under parents, but without Harlan,

they just know.

Right.

But he's a mental.

Yeah.

And, and, and, and, and, and, and he got just to call him, but even that change in the

approach to not have the executive group and have a president doesn't guarantee anything

if you don't have the right guy.

Right.

But he, he did hire the right guy and that allowed him to give, you know, so many, so

many people wanted to be about them and he wanted it to be about the football people.

And he hired the right people and he let them do their job and they had incredible success

as a result.

Thanks, Jason, because we could go in an hour.

So just just keep telling the world all the nice stories about Bob Harlan.

I will.

Thanks, Jason.

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